Abstract Photovoltaic (PV) and wind power generation are very promising renewable energy sources, reasonable capacity allocation of PV–wind complementary storage (ES) system can improve the economy reliability operation. In this paper, goal is to ensure supply reduce operation cost. The PV, ES models analyzed. differential evolutionary (DE) algorithm adopted optimize particle swarm optimization...

China’s choices of energy demand and supply technologies have a large impact on the world’s energy market and the environment. Of its 920 billion kWh electric power production in 1993, it is estimated that 15% was used for lighting consumption (~120 billion kWh). This figure is likely to grow as the country develops, and so improving the energy efficiency of lighting in China could have a treme...

Industrial and experimental induction furnaces are used for melting various types of iron ingots, returned scraps and DRI sponge pellets to produce high purity cast - iron and steel heats. The lowest consumption of electrical energy determined for continuous feeding operation is 0.3 KWH/Kg for the production of cast - iron in a 1.5 - ton industrial furnace and 0.45 KWH/Kg for the production of ...

Offshore wind resource maps for the coastal waters off Shirahama, Japan were made based on 104 images of the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) onboard the ENVISAT satellite. Wind speed fields were derived from the SAR images with the geophysical model function CMOD5.N. Mean wind speed and energy density were estimated using the Weibull distribution function. These accuracies were examine...

in this research, the efficiency of the comminution circuit as well as the efficiency of size classification equipment of the concentrator plant 2 of sarcheshmeh copper complex was studied. the comminution circuit of this plant includes one sag mill in a closed circuit with a vibrating screen and one ball mill with a size classification system of hydrocyclone. the goal of this work was to calcu...

A solar-aided coal-fired power plant realizes the integration of a fossil fuel (coal or gas) and clean energy (solar). In this paper, a conventional 600 MW coal-fired power plant and a 600 MW solar-aided coal-fired power plant have been taken as the study case to understand the merits of solar-aided power generation (SAPG) technology. The plants in the case study have been analyzed by using the...

Microgrids are autonomous systems that generate, distribute, store, and manage energy. This type of energy solution has the potential to supply remote communities since they can integrate solar, wind, back-up diesel generation. These potentially beneficial in Peru, where there approximately 1.5 million people without access electricity. paper studies technical aspects implementation, operation,...

Wind energy is the world’s fastest growing energy source. The amount of power generated by wind energy depends on the speed of the wind. Because of the intermittent and fluctuating wind speed they are not suitable to micro grid applications unless proper power and energy management strategies are available. Hence a Suitable method of giving stable active, reactive power is required. Hybrid powe...

Wind power has been developed rapidly as a clean energy in recent years. The forecast error of wind power, however, makes it difficult to use wind power effectively. In some former statistical models, the forecast error was usually assumed to be a Gaussian distribution, which had proven to be unreliable after a statistical analysis. In this paper, a more suitable probability density function fo...

The goal of the Robust Affordable Next Generation Energy Storage System (RANGE)-BASF program is to provide an alternative solution for the energy storage media that powers electric vehicles other than the existing Li-ion battery. With the use of a rare-earth-free metal hydride (MH) as the active negative electrode material, together with a core-shell type alpha-beta nickel hydroxide as the acti...